I am going to resend my message to Neil Laudati. I volenteered at the Youth Farm that sold vegetables of the grounds of Riverbend. Take note of the use of the word;
COMMUNITY
Can you count? How can the City Managers, the Mayor of Springfield, and Governor Kotek – keep us begging for MERCY – as they talk a good game of COMMUNITY? Chapman is not – EVEN GOING TO LIVE HERE! How can every Fake Religious Ornization in the Emerald Vally – STAND BY AND ALLOW THE WIZARD OF OZ TO PLAY AN EVIL SHELL GAME WITH…..
WE THE PEOPLE OF SPRGINGFILED OREGON?
John The Franciscan Nazarite
“The idea that … he has no idea how this organizational structure is set up defies logic and credibility,” Kasubhai said.
Chapman said he doesn’t plan to relocate to Oregon but will have final authority over hiring, scheduling and clinical oversight. He said he plans to rely on local physician leaders to help him.”
Niel Laudati
Assistant City Manager at City of Springfield, Oregon
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Members of PeaceHealth’s stellar Food & Nutrition Services team!
Farm Fresh Workplace Success
By Diana Meeks
If you go all the way back to the origins of PeaceHealth in the late 19th century, you’ll find an amazing story and an amazing woman. Mother Francis Claire (shown below), who founded the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace in 1884, and was what we today would call an incredible changemaker. She was a strong leader who became internationally known (and occasionally castigated) for her work and advocacy on behalf of women and the poor. She was a talented and profuse writer, raised incredible sums of money for famine relief in Ireland, switched religions to have more impact, founded her own convent, traveled to America, and started an industrial school for women…among other things. And, as it turns out, the reverberation of her work is still being felt today, right here in Bellingham.
In 1890 two novice sisters from St. Joseph of Peace left their convent in New Jersey and traveled to Fairhaven (imagine what that journey must have been like!) to start a hospital that would serve the budding community of loggers, fisherman, millworkers and their families. A picture of what Fairhaven would have looked like at the time is shown below. Over the next century, the number and locations of their hospitals grew and reached as far south as Oregon. In the 1970s the sisters decided to form a separate organization that would oversee the hospitals, and in 1994 the name was changed to PeaceHealth to better reflect their original mission. To this day they continue the important work that the sisters started so long ago, and have a commitment to care for the whole community, not just treat individuals. Liz Dunne, the current President and CEO explains “great clinical care is just one key component that influences overall health. Fostering healthy communities means reaching people before they are sick and supporting their physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.”
In PeaceHealth’s Community Commitment they’ve outlined four areas of focus including family nutrition, affordable housing, health workers, and substance use as places the organization endeavors to heal in order to create healthy communities. They believe in hyperlocal solutions and that change starts from within, that it only makes sense for staff to champion these efforts internally. So what does local food have to do with all this?
A number of years ago they adopted Sustainable Connections’ Farm Fresh Workplaces program which connects employers to local farms and gets fresh food boxes delivered straight from the farm to the office. These boxes of food or “farm shares” are also called Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and are one of the best ways to get more fruit and veggies into your diet and support local farmers. It ended up being a great tool PeaceHealth could use to support their staff and their efforts to eat more nutritious food.
Last year PeaceHealth had 60 employees that signed up to participate, including Hilary Andrade, PeaceHealth’s Senior Communication Specialist, who coordinates the program. After sending out a survey to employees to see what was important to them (was organic food a priority, did they want the option to order eggs, etc.) they settled on Cedarville Farm located just outside Bellingham. Cedarville is owned and operated by Mike and Kim Finger who have been farming in Whatcom County for over 30 years. They grow a large variety of organic veggies, fruits, and also offer eggs. They were the first farm in Whatcom to offer a CSA and make it easy for anyone to participate. They also include recipes for veggies that are a little out of the ordinary, so along with the fresh organic tomatoes, kale, lettuce, beets, carrots, and basil, staff will know exactly what they can do with their kohlrabi!
Hilary says the partnership with Cedarville has been perfect. Getting boxes of local food delivered introduces a variety of produce, and new veggies many haven’t tried before. Cedarville has also worked with PeacHealth to offer a new option to increase flexibility and choice this year. It makes eating local and fresh easy, and for PeaceHealth it exemplifies their belief that “food is medicine, and that the local option should always be the first choice whenever possible in order to honor the community and do what we can to build it up.”
When it comes to food PeaceHealth has also been revamping their dining services. They recently overhauled their menu and started cooking as much food from scratch as possible for the hospital cafeteria and patient meals. Their kitchen makes their own healing bone broths, breads, and dressings and the cafeteria has a fresh salad bar so customers can choose from a wide variety of healthy options. They are striving to integrate more local foods and in the coming years might even host a small weekly farmers market on campus.
“We are always working to nourish our patients and ourselves in a way that supports our community,” says Hilary. Here at Sustainable Connections, we commend them for the work that they’ve done and the ways in which they are supporting their staff and the local food system! The public is always welcome at the cafeteria, especially for Pho Fridays. If you’d like to learn more about how to set up your own Farm Fresh Workplace program, you can get a toolkit and all the support you’d like here –it’s a real win for staff, workplace wellness, and our community!
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Our History
A Heritage of Healing
On August 3, 1890, two members of the fledgling Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace left their convent in Newark, New Jersey, bound for Fairhaven, Washington, a remote logging community in the country’s far northwest corner.
Their charge: to build a hospital to care for loggers, mill workers, fishermen and their families.
The opening of St. Joseph Hospital ushered in more than a century of Catholic health care ministry in the Pacific Northwest by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace and their lay colleagues.
The order’s Foundress, Mother Francis Clare, was an activist Irish nun whose reformist zeal often put her at odds with Church hierarchy. She became internationally known for her work and writing on behalf of women and the poor.
By 1916, the spirit that defined and launched the health care ministry in Fairhaven had grown to include five hospitals in Washington, Alaska and British Columbia. In 1936 it reached Oregon as well.
In the early 1970s, the Sisters decided to form a separate structure to oversee their hospital services to more effectively meet the challenges of contemporary health care and to partner with qualified laypersons who shared in this important work.
The name of the organization was changed to PeaceHealth in 1994 to better reflect our mission and heritage. In March 1997 the health system board of trustees was granted status as a Private Pontifical Juridic Person to ensure the continuation of the healing ministry as a Catholic health system under lay leadership in service to the communities.
To this day, the religious community remains committed to its Foundress’s vision of achieving peace through social justice in its life and ministries.
The Sisters have entrusted to their lay colleagues the important mission of carrying on the healing mission of Jesus through exceptional medicine and healing in a gracious and compassionate manner to all those come to PeaceHealth for care.
About Mother Francis Clare and the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace
Mother Francis Clare: Foundress of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace
Margaret Anna Cusack was born to an aristocratic family of English origin in Coolak, County Dublin, Ireland. Her father was a doctor who was dedicated to the service of the poor.
She was raised under the precepts of the Church of England and viewed social justice through Christian concepts. In 1853 she joined the Anglican Sisterhood. She quickly became disillusioned with what she considered the petty concerns of the group. Upon leaving five years later, she wrote, “I do not believe in offering the gospel of talk to starving people.”
In 1858 she became a convert to the Roman Catholic Church. One year later she entered the Order of Poor Clare nuns and took the name Mother Francis Clare.
A fierce advocate of social justice
The year 1861 brought Mother Clare to Kenmare in Ireland, where she founded the first convent of the Poor Clares in the west of Ireland. A talented writer, she published on the issues of social injustice. Her writings and actions focused on advocacy of women’s rights including equal pay, equal opportunity for education, and legal reform to give women control of their own property.
The Irish Famine of 1879 plunged the country into crisis. Margaret Anna responded by raising great sums of money to feed the poor. By now her outspoken ways and success at feeding the poor made her the target of scorn from government and church leadership. Church and public resistance forced her to shut down her Famine Relief Fund and look to England for support of her vision.
Her next effort was to establish another convent and to propose development of an industrial school for women, complete with a day center for their children.
Arrival in America
In 1884 Margaret Anna founded the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace. Seeking funds to support her sisters’ work with women and children, in 1885 she set off for America. Soon after arriving, she established a home for migrant women who, upon arrival in New York, often found themselves to be homeless and jobless.
The success of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace spread. By 1890 the Sisters were being asked to go west to serve the needs of frontier settlements springing up in the Pacific Northwest. It was in August of this year that two Sisters set off from New Jersey, on what was to be the beginning of PeaceHealth and the continuation of the vision of Margaret Anna Cusack
The Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace
A Heritage of Healing and Compassionate Care
On August 3, 1890, two members of the fledgling Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace left their convent in Newark, N.J. bound for Fairhaven, Wash., a remote logging community in the country’s far northwest corner. Their charge: to build a hospital to care for loggers, mill workers, fishermen and their families. The opening of St. Joseph Hospital ushered in more than a century of Catholic health care ministry in the Pacific Northwest by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace and their lay colleagues.
Mother Francis Clare had founded the order in England in 1884. She was an activist Irish nun who became internationally known for her work and writing on behalf of women and the poor, though her reformist zeal often put her at odds with Church hierarchy. To this day the religious community remains committed to its foundress’s vision of achieving peace through social justice in its life and ministries.
By 1916 the spirit that defined and launched the health care ministry in Fairhaven had grown to include five hospitals in Washington, Alaska and British Columbia; in 1936 it reached into Oregon as well. In the early 1970s the Sisters decided to form a separate structure to oversee their hospital services, to more effectively meet the challenges of contemporary health care, and to partner with qualified laypersons who share in this important work. The name of the organization was changed to PeaceHealth in 1994 to better reflect the mission and heritage of the organization. Since change and adaptation are well known to the Sisters, in March 1997 the system Board of Trustees received the status as a Pontifical Private Juridic Person. This ensures the continuation of the healing ministry as a Catholic health system under lay leadership to the communities in which we serve.
The Sisters entrust to their lay colleagues the important mission of carrying out the healing mission of Jesus by being dedicated to exceptional medicine and compassionate care.
To learn more about the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace, visit csjp.org.
Exceptional Medicine & Compassionate Care
Our promise of the Spirit of Health is a continuation of the healing ministry begun in 1890 in Bellingham by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace and their lay colleagues when they founded St. Joseph Hospital to care for loggers, mill workers and their families.
Our promise guides what we do and how we go about doing it. It is relationship-centered. It is based on the premise that everything in the environment affects recovery and healing. Very little is neutral; almost everything can either enhance or impair the healing process for our patients and their families.
From our faith tradition, the Spirit of Health integrates healing in a holistic sense: a focus on the physical, emotional and spiritual wellness of our patients. Our goal is to provide highly reliable, safe clinical treatment, striving to use the best that technology and science can provide.
The Spirit of Health guides us as we continue to transform our health care system through networks of care serving many communities. It guides us as we develop our models of care in service to our patients and families. It guides us in how we hire, develop and respond to the needs of our caregivers. It guides us as we design facilities. It guides us as we continuously improve systems, processes, programs and organizational infrastructures.
We will have fulfilled our vision when every PeaceHealth patient receives safe, evidence-based, compassionate care: every time, every touch.
The Spirit of Health combines the science and art, the head and heart of our health care ministry.
The Spirit of Health is the cornerstone of our culture at PeaceHealth.
Employment Scam Alert
PeaceHealth has been made aware of several fake employment scams impersonating PeaceHealth. These scams usually involve someone claiming to work for PeaceHealth reaching out either via email or phone with an interview request or job offer. Job offers that are not directly extended by a PeaceHealth-employed recruiter are fake, and these scammers are attempting to steal your money or identity. Possible alerts that this may not be legitimate include:
- Contacting you via text message without having had a connection with you prior
- Contacting you from an email address that does not end in peacehealth.org. This includes emails ending in gmail.com, yahoo.com, or other similar addresses
- Contacting you for a job opening for which you did not apply.
- Asking you to pay money upfront to be considered for a job posting.
- Sending you a “virtual check” with instructions to print out and deposit.
- Requesting (or completing) an interview completely online via text message that results in a job offer without a personal conversation with someone.
If you receive one of these Scam Messages, DO NOT RESPOND. If you received a scam message and would like to report it, or are unsure if a message you received is a scam, please email us at: employmentscamreporting@peacehealth.org. More information on these scams can be found here. Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) | Fake Job Listings.
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